Performance 2007

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Two months before the release of their fifth full-length album, Year Zero, Nine Inch Nails began a new tour, officially called Performance 2007. The tour started as a kind of best hits tour (since no songs from Year Zero were played at the first few days) but later transformed into direct Year Zero support tour.

European spring tour

Show in Munich on March 28, 2007.

Prior to the beginning of tour Reznor in interview described it as an opportunity of playing with the same line-up again, visiting some places NIN did not played in before and revisiting music from all the different areas of NIN rather than focusing on the new album.

The production on this tour was minimal, as it was mostly club tour. On the other hand, the tour featured the heaviest setlist rotation in NIN history, covering about 40 songs from all NIN albums.

During the Spanish and UK legs at the beginning of this tour, flash drives each containing an intentionally leaked song from Year Zero ("My Violent Heart," "Me, I'm Not" and "In This Twilight") have been found in men's bathroom stalls.

Australia/Japan spring tour

This tour featured the same production as previous European tour, but was more focused on Year Zero, as it had 5-6 Year Zero songs in each show setlist, while European tour had no more than two. "Hyperpower!", "The Good Soldier", "Me, I'm Not" and "Capital G" made their live debut on this leg.

Summer/fall tour

This tour featured one more song from Year Zero ("The Great Destroyer") and more extensive production, which included a traditional for major NIN tours visual section in the middle of show, this time created for "Me, I'm Not", "The Great Destroyer", "Eraser" and "Only".